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The A & P

M. A. Adelman

In this study of the A & P. the author inquires into cost and price policy in one of America's large corporations, and examines the fact-finding process in government regulation of an industry.

Hardcover

The ABCs of RBCs

George McCandless

The ABCs of RBCs is the first book to provide a basic introduction to Real Business Cycle (RBC) and New-Keynesian models. It is designed to teach the economic practitioner or student how to build simple RBC models. Matlab code for solving many of the models is provided, and careful readers should be able to construct, solve, and use their own models.

Hardcover 2008

Accounting for Tastes

Gary S. Becker

In this lively new collection Gary Becker confronts the problem of preferences and values: how they are formed and how they affect our behavior. He argues that past experiences and social influences form two basic capital stocks: personal and social. He then applies these concepts to assessing the effects of advertising, the power of peer pressure, the nature of addiction, and the function of habits.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998 / E-book 2009

Adam's Fallacy

Duncan K. Foley

This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." The title expresses Duncan Foley's belief that economics at its most abstract and interesting level is a speculative philosophical discourse, not a deductive or inductive science. Adam's fallacy is the attempt to separate the economic sphere of life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is led by the invisible hand of the market to a socially beneficial outcome, from the rest of social life, in which the pursuit of self-interest is morally problematic and has to be weighed against other ends.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Advertising and Market Power

William S. Comanor

Thomas A. Wilson

Hardcover 1974

Agriculture and Economic Growth

Yair Mundlak

The noted economist Yair Mundlak presents a theory of the growth of the agricultural sector in America within the context of a growing economy. He explores the various aspects of the dynamics of agriculture and their relationship to the dynamics of the economy at large, offering a unique blend of theory, methodology, and empirical analysis.

Hardcover 2000

Air Transport and Its Regulators

Richard E. Caves

Hardcover 1962

American Multinationals and Japan

Mark Mason

Drawing on rich historical materials from both sides of the Pacific, including corporate records and government documents never before made public, Mason examines the development of both Japanese policy towards foreign investment and the strategic responses of American corporations.

Hardcover

American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-bellum Economy

Albert Fishlow

Hardcover 1965

An Econometric Model of Canada under the Fluctuating Exchange Rate

Lawrence H. Officer

Hardcover 1968

An Economic History of Sweden

Eli Filip Heckscher

Hardcover 1954

An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change

Richard R. Nelson

Sidney G. Winter

This book contains the most sustained and serious attack on mainstream, neoclassical economics in more than forty years. Nelson and Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime. They marshal significant objections to the fundamental neoclassical assumptions of profit maximization and market equilibrium, which they find ineffective in the analysis of technological innovation and the dynamics of competition among firms.

Paperback 1985 / E-book 2009

The Art and Science of Negotiation

Howard Raiffa

Using a vast array of specific cases and clear, helpful diagrams, Raiffa not only elucidates the step-by-step processes of negotiation but also translates this deeper understanding into practical guidelines for negotiators and "intervenors."

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1985

Aspects of the Theory of Tariffs

Harry G. Johnson

Hardcover 1971

Australian Industrial Relations Systems

Kenneth F. Walker

Hardcover 1970

The Bakumatsu Currency Crisis

Peter Frost

Paperback 1970

Beyond Economic Man

Harvey Leibenstein

Paperback

Beyond Individualism

Michael J. Piore

Michael Piore, in this book, develop a new social theory that balances individual preferences against the claims and responsibilities of the community. By explaining the role of groups in economic and social life, this theory makes sense of a host of perplexing social phenomena and policy issues.

Hardcover

Beyond Machiavelli

Roger Fisher

Elizabeth Kopelman

Andrea Schneider

Hardcover

Beyond Nationalization

George B. Baldwin

This book is an interim report on how the human problems of the British coal industry are handled under nationalization—one of the classic experiments in governmental control of a great industry. The book makes clear why the future progress of the industry will depend on the solution of specific labor problems regardless of the system of ownership or which political party may control the government or the Coal Board.

Hardcover

Beyond the Land Itself

Marcia B. Kline

Hardcover

A Bibliographical Guide to Japanese Research on the Chinese Economy, 1958-1970

W. P. J. Hall

Paperback 1972

Book Publishing in the U.S.S.R

Robert L. Bernstein

Mark Carroll

Robert W. Frase

Edward J. McCabe

W. Bradford Wiley

Hardcover 1972

The Brazilian Capital Goods Industry, 1929-1964

Nathaniel H. Leff

Hardcover 1968

British Monetary Policy and the Balance of Payments, 1951-1957

Peter B. Kenen

Hardcover 1960

Business and Public Policy

Edited by John T. Dunlop

Hardcover 1980

The Butcher Workmen

David Brody

The advance of trade unionism in the first part of the 20th century to a dominant place in the American economy brought with it a major change in the life of the nation. This phenomenal growth has not hitherto been adequately studied. This is the first book to deal with the actual process of unionization. Mr. Brody presents here a detailed study of one industry—meat packing and retailing—with implications that apply to unionization in general.

Hardcover 1964

The CIO Challenge to the AFL

Walter Galenson

Hardcover

Canada in the World Economy

John A. Stovel

Hardcover 1959

Capital Resurgent

Gérard Duménil

Dominique Lévy

Translated by Derek Jeffers

Economists Duménil and Lévy show that, despite free market platitudes, neoliberalism was a planned effort by financial interests against the postwar Keynesian compromise. The cluster of neoliberal policies--including privatization, liberalization of world trade, and reduction in state welfare benefits--is an expression of the power of finance in the world economy. The authors argue for stabilizing the world economy before we run headlong into economic disaster.

Hardcover 2004

Capital Taxation

Martin Feldstein

Hardcover 1983

Capital Transfers and Economic Policy

Richard E. Caves

Grant L. Reuber

Hardcover 1971

Capital and Labor in American Copper, 1845-1990

George Hildebrand

Garth Mangum

The book is the first comprehensive study of the American copper industry to include labor markets, unionism, and labor relations as an integral part of its focus. It also undertakes a careful examination of the influences exerted by geography and geology in the shaping of the industry.

Hardcover 1991

Capitalism with a Human Face

Samuel Brittan

Sir Samuel Brittan, the doyen of British economic journalists, explores the connections between economics, ethics, and politics while assessing the merits and defects of capitalism in this post-socialist era.

Paperback 1996

Capitalists, Workers, and Fiscal Policy

Thomas R. Michl

Drawing on the work of the classical-Marxian economists and their modern successors, this book sets forth a new model of economic growth and distribution, and applies it to two major policy issues: public debt and social security.

Hardcover 2009

Carroll Wright and Labor Reform

James Leiby

Contemporaries of Carroll D. Wright (1840-1909) lived through the transformation of American society by the industrial revolution. For the most part they thought the transformation represented growth and progress, but many also found occasion for doubt and fear in its consequences. Their anxieties collected around the notions of a "labor problem" and "labor reform." Whether from hope or fear, people felt a need for statistical information. On this popular demand Wright built his career as statistical expert and renowned master of "labor statistics." His investigations during thirty-two years of government service (1873-1905) gave form to contemporary ideas and set precedents for modern procedures, as in his seminal studies of wages, prices, and strikes.

Hardcover 1960

A Century of Russian Agriculture

Lazar Volin

Public pronouncements of Russian leaders--prerevolutionary and postrevolutionary alike--attested the crucial role of the agricultural problem, its economically and politically explosive nature, and its persistence over the years. Emphasizing the continuity of problems and policies too often dichotomized into tsarist and Soviet eras, Volin created a sweeping panorama of the century between the emancipation of the serfs and the 1960s.

Hardcover 1970

Chains of Opportunity

Harrison C. White

Hardcover 1970

Change in Agriculture

Clarence H. Danhof

Hardcover 1969

The Charles Ilfeld Company

William J. Parish

Hardcover 1961

Choice and Consequence

Thomas C. Schelling

Thomas Schelling is a political economist "conspicuous for wandering"--an errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating as euthanasia. He examines ethical issues wrapped up in economics, unwrapping the economics to disclose ethical issues that are misplaced or misidentified.

Paperback 1985

Choice, Welfare and Measurement

Amartya Sen

Paperback 1997

Collected Papers

Lloyd A. Metzler

Hardcover 1973

Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 1, Social Choice and Justice

Kenneth J. Arrow

In this first volume, Arrow takes up the basic question of whether collective choices can be made in such a way as to reflect individual preferences. The seminal 1950 paper that opens the volume shows that given certain reasonable conditions that social choices must satisfy to reflect individual preferences, it is impossible to make a choice among all sets of alternatives without violating some of the conditions.

Hardcover 1984

Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 2, General Equilibrium

Kenneth J. Arrow

Unlike the papers of some other great economists, those of Kenneth Arrow are being read and studied today with even greater care and attention than when they first appeared in the journals. The publication of his collected papers will therefore be welcomed by economists and other social scientists and in particular by graduate students, who can draw from them the deep knowledge and the discernment in selection of scientific problems that only a master can offer. The author has added headnotes to certain well-known papers, describing how he came to write them.

Hardcover 1984

Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 3, Individual Choice under Certainty and Uncertainty

Kenneth J. Arrow

The third volume of Kenneth Arrow's Collected Papers concerns the basic concept of rationality as it applies to an economic decision maker. In particular, it addresses the problem of choice faced by consumers in a multicommodity world and presents specific models of choice useful in economic analysis. It also discusses choice models under uncertainty, giving the basic theory and critiques of this theory based on experimental evidence and applications. Among the major papers are "Alternative Approaches to the Theory of Choice in Risk-Taking Situations," a masterly survey of subjective probability and choice theory, and "The Theory of Risk Aversion," an exposition of the theory of choice under uncertainty.

Hardcover 1984

Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 4, The Economics of Information

Kenneth J. Arrow

This volume begins with Arrow's papers on statistical decision theory, which served as a foundation for his work on the economics of information. As he writes in his preface, "Statistical method was an example for the acquisition of information. In a world of uncertainty, it was no great leap to realize that information is valuable in an economic sense." The later, applied papers, which operationalize the theory of the early ones, include essays on the demand for information, the economic value of screening devices, and the effect of incomplete information on the structure of organizations, futures markets, and insurance.

Hardcover 1984

Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 5, Production and Capital

Kenneth J. Arrow

The study of production is central to economic theory, and capital and its accumulation are two of the most interesting aspects of the modern production process. Capital may take the form of inventories of inputs, inventories of outputs, or machines and other fixed goods. The essential and unique aspect of all types of capital is that it must be accumulated as the result of prior stages of the production process. This gives the dynamic theory of production a recursive structure that can be exploited by economic analysis. The optimization of production under recursive conditions lends itself to general mathematical methods of dynamic programming and optimal control theory. This is the main theme of the essays included in this fifth volume of Kenneth Arrow's Collected Papers.

Hardcover 1985

Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow, Volume 6, Applied Economics

Kenneth J. Arrow

Although economic theory has been Kenneth Arrow's comparative advantage as well as his special interest, from time to time he has turned his attention to applied problems, often with unexpected results. A request from the Ford Foundation to write a survey of health economics led to his famous paper, "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care," which raised for the first time many issues in the economics of information, particularly what are now called incentive compatibility issues. Other fruitful papers included in this volume deal with racial discrimination, the cost of oil imports, health insurance, environmental resources, and urban economics. Arrow's main interest in studying these disparate problems has been their potential source for new theory as well as their policy applications.

Hardcover 1985

College Choice in America

Charles F. Manski

David A. Wise

Using the data from the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972, the authors present a set of interrelated analyses of student and institutional behavior, each focused on a particular aspect of the process of choosing and being chosen by a college.

Hardcover 1983

Competition Policy for Small Market Economies

Michal S. Gal

Michal Gal's thorough analysis shows the effects of market size on competition policy, ranging from rules of thumb to more general policy prescriptions, such as goals and remedial tools. Competition policy in small economies is becoming increasingly important, since the number of small jurisdictions adopting such policy is rapidly growing. Gal's focus extends beyond domestic competition policy to the evaluation of the current trend toward the worldwide harmonization of policies.

Hardcover 2003 / E-book 2009

Competition in an Open Economy

Richard E. Caves

Michael E. Porter

A. Michael Spence

John T. Scott

Hardcover 1980

Competition in the Investment Banking Industry

Samuel L. Hayes

A. Michael Spence

David Van Praag Marks

Hardcover 1983

Competition in the Midwestern Coal Industry

Reed Moyer

Hardcover 1964

Competitive Advantage on the Shop Floor

William Lazonick

Hardcover

Computers, Inc

Marie Anchordoguy

This account of efforts to build a domestic Japanese computer industry is enlivened with quotations from industrial leaders commenting on the stages through which Japan has emerged as a world-class competitor.

Hardcover 1989

Consumption Behavior and the Effects of Government Fiscal Policies

Randall P. Mariger

Hardcover 1986

Contested Commodities

Margaret Jane Radin

How far should society go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services? Margaret Jane Radin addresses this controversial issue in a detailed exploration of contested commodification. As a philosophical pragmatist, the author argues for a conception of incomplete commodification, in which some contested things can be bought and sold, but only under carefully regulated circumstances.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 2001

The Control Revolution

James Beniger

Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the past century. In the U.S., applications of steam power in the early 1800s brought a dramatic rise in the speed, volume, and complexity of industrial processes, making them difficult to control. Inevitably the Industrial Revolution, with its ballooning use of energy to drive material processes, required a corresponding growth in the exploitation of information.

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1989 / E-book 2009

The Control of Resources

Partha Dasgupta

Hardcover 1983

Copyhold, Equity, and the Common Law

Charles Montgomery Gray

This book has a threefold purpose: to date and explain the beginning of legal protection of copyholders in courts of law and equity; to reconstruct and explain the first stage in the creation of a body of law relating to copyholds; and to provide a case study in sixteenth-century jurisprudence of a sort that may tend to illuminate larger questions about the judicial process in that period.

Hardcover 1963

The Corporate Economy

Robin Marris

Adrian Wood

Hardcover 1971

Creating Modern Capitalism

Thomas K. McCraw, Editor

What explains the national economic success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan? What can be learned from the performances of leading business firms? How important were specific innovations by individual entrepreneurs? What is the true nature of capitalist development? Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Thomas McCraw and his coauthors present penetrating answers to these questions in Creating Modern Capitalism, the first book to explain for a broad audience the interconnections among technological innovation, management science, the power of entrepreneurship, and national economic growth.

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1999

Creative Industries

Richard E. Caves

This book explores the organization of creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, movies, theater, sound recordings, and book publishing. In each, artistic inputs are combined with other, "humdrum" inputs. But the deals that bring these inputs together are inherently problematic: artists have strong views; the muse whispers erratically; and consumer approval remains highly uncertain until all costs have been incurred. To explain the logic of these arrangements, the author draws on the analytical resources of industrial economics and the theory of contracts.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Edi Karni

Hardcover 1985

The Depletion Myth

Sherry H. Olson

Hardcover 1971

The Development Frontier

P. T. Bauer

Hardcover 1991

Development Policy, II, The Pakistan Experience

Edited by Walter P. Falcon

Edited by Gustav F. Papanek

Hardcover 1971

The Developmental Role of the Foreign Sector and Aid

Anne O. Krueger

Hardcover 1979

The Dismal Science

Stephen A. Marglin

Insurance may be an efficient way of organizing resources, but the deep social and human ties that constitute community are weakened by the shift from reciprocity to market relations. This book dissects the ways in which the foundational assumptions of economics justify a world in which individuals are isolated from one another and social connections are impoverished. Marglin presents an account of how this happened and an argument for righting the imbalance that this ideology has fostered.

Hardcover 2008 / Paperback 2010

Dissent on Development

P. T. Bauer

Hardcover

Does Atlas Shrug?

Joel B. Slemrod

Since the introduction of the income tax in 1913, controversy has raged about how heavily to tax the rich. Notably absent from this debate is hard evidence about the actual impact of taxes on the behavior of the affluent. This book presents evidence by leading economists of the effects of taxes on the formation of businesses, the supply of labor, the form of executive compensation, the accumulation of wealth, the allocation of portfolios, and the realization of capital gains.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

The Dragon and the Iron Horse

Ralph William Huenemann

Hardcover 1984

Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory

Thomas J. Sargent

The tasks of macroeconomics are to interpret observations on economic aggregates in terms of the motivations and constraints of economic agents and to predict the consequences of alternative hypothetical ways of administering government economic policy. General equilibrium models form a convenient context for analyzing such alternative government policies. In the past ten years, the strengths of general equilibrium models and the corresponding deficiencies of Keynesian and monetarist models of the 1960s have induced macroeconomists to begin applying general equilibrium models.

Hardcover 1987 / E-book 2009

Economic Analysis of Product Innovation

Manuel Trajtenberg

Hardcover 1990

Economic Concentration and the Monopoly Problem

Edward S. Mason

Hardcover 1957

Economic Development, Population Policy, and Demographic Transition in the Republic of Korea

Robert Repetto

Tae Hwan Kwon

Son-Ung Kim

Dae Young Kim

Peter J. Donaldson

Hardcover 1981

Economic Growth of Nations

Simon Kuznets

Hardcover 1971

Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline

Donald N. McCloskey

Hardcover 1973

Economic Planning and Organization in Mainland China

Kuo-chun Chao

Paperback 1959 / Paperback 1960

Economic Policymaking in a Conflict Society

Richard D. Mallon

Juan V. Sourrouille

Hardcover 1975

Economic Redevelopment in Bituminous Coal

C. L. Christenson

Hardcover 1962

Economic Response

Charles P. Kindleberger

Hardcover 1978

The Economic Structure of International Law

Joel P. Trachtman

This book presents policymakers and scholars with an over-arching analytical model of international law, one that demonstrates the potential of international law, but also explains how policymakers should choose among different international legal structures.

Hardcover 2008 / E-book 2009

The Economic Structure of Tort Law

William M. Landes

Richard A. Posner

Written by a lawyer and an economist, this is the first full-length economic study of tort law--the body of law that governs liability for accidents and for intentional wrongs such as battery and defamation. Landes and Posner propose that tort law is best understood as a system for achieving an efficient allocation of resources to safety--that, on the whole, rules and doctrines of tort law encourage the optimal investment in safety by potential injurers and potential victims.

Hardcover 1987

Economic Structure of the Yuan Dynasty

Herbert Franz Schurmann

Hardcover 1956

Economic and Political Development

Helio Jaguaribe

Hardcover 1968

Economics and Liberalism

Overton H. Taylor

Hardcover 1955

The Economics of Competition in the Transportation Industries

John R. Meyer

Merton J. Peck

John Stenason

Charles Zwick

Hardcover 1959

The Economics of Multi-Plant Operation

Frederic M. Scherer

Alan Beckenstein

Erich Kaufer

Dennis R. Murphy

Francine Bougeon-Massen

Hardcover 1975

Economics of Worldwide Stagflation

Michael Bruno

Jeffrey Sachs

Hardcover 1985

Electric Power in Brazil

Judith Tendler

Hardcover 1968

The Emergence of China

Edited by Robert Devlin

Edited by Antoni Estevadeordal

Edited by Andres Rodriguez

This pioneering volume provides a comprehensive overview of China's economic policy and performance over recent decades and contrasts them with the Latin American experience, opening new avenues for thinking about revitalizing development strategies in Latin America in the face of China's successful development and reduction of poverty. This insightful report is a must-read for analysts, policymakers, and development practitioners, not only in Latin America and the Caribbean, but wherever China's presence is being felt.

Paperback 2006

The Emergence of Multinational Enterprise

Mira Wilkins

Hardcover 1970

Employers Large and Small

Charles Brown

Jay Hamilton

James Medoff

Hardcover 1990

Employment Hazards

W. Kip Viscusi

Hardcover 1980

The Enforcement of English Apprenticeship

Margaret Gay Davies

Hardcover 1956

Equality of Opportunity

John E. Roemer

John Roemer argues that there is a "before" and an "after" in the notion of equality of opportunity: before the competition starts, opportunities must be equalized, by social intervention if need be; but after it begins, individuals are on their own. The different views of equal opportunity should be judged according to where they place the starting gate which separates "before" from "after." Roemer works out in a precise way how to determine the location of the starting gate in the different views.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000 / E-book 2009

Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion

P. T. Bauer

Hardcover / Paperback

Essays in International Economics

J. Marcus Fleming

Hardcover 1971

Essays in the Economics of Uncertainty

Jean-Jacques Laffont

Hardcover 1980

Estimating How the Macroeconomy Works

Ray Fair

Fair is a resolute empiricist, developing and refining methods for testing theories and models. Using a multicountry econometric model, he examines several important questions, including what causes inflation, how monetary authorities behave and what are their stabilization limits, how large is the wealth effect on aggregate consumption, whether European monetary policy has been too restrictive, and how large are the stabilization costs to Europe of adopting the euro.

Hardcover 2004 / E-book 2009

Evaluating Welfare and Training Programs

Edited by Charles F. Manski

Edited by Irwin Garfinkel

Hardcover

Executive

Harry Levinson

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Executive Defense

Michael Useem

Hardcover

Exercises in Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory

Rodolfo E. Manuelli

Thomas J. Sargent

This book is a companion volume to Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory by Thomas J. Sargent. It provides scrimmages in dynamic macroeconomic theory--precisely the kind of drills that people will need in order to learn the techniques of dynamic programming and its applications to economics.

Paperback 1987 / E-book 2009

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty

Albert O. Hirschman

An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert 0. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations: one-exit-is for the member to quit the organization or for the customer to switch to the competing product, and the other-voice-is for members or customers to agitate and exert influence for change "from within."

Paperback 1970

Family Firm to Modern Multinational

Charles W. Cheape

Hardcover 1985

Farm Policies and Politics in the Truman Years

Allen J. Matusow

Hardcover 1967

Favorites of Fortune

Edited by Patrice Higonnet

Edited by David S. Landes

Edited by Henry Rosovsky

A galaxy of distinguished international economists and historians pit economic history against the shaky assumptions of the classical economic theory of natural growth.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1998

The Federal Railway Land Subsidy Policy of Canada

James B. Hedges

Hardcover 1934

Financial Development in Korea, 1945-1978

David C. Cole

Yung Chul Park

Hardcover 1983

Fishing for Growth

Michael Roemer

Hardcover 1970

Florentine Public Finances in the Early Renaissance, 1400-1433

Anthony Molho

Hardcover 1971

Forbidden Grounds

Richard Epstein

This timely and controversial book presents powerful theoretical and empirical arguments for the repeal of the anti-discrimination laws within the workplace.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback

Foundations of Economic Analysis

Paul Samuelson

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback 1983

The Four Little Dragons

Ezra F. Vogel

Vogel brings masterly insight to the underlying question of why Japan and the little dragons--Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--have been so extraordinarily successful in industrializing while other developing countries have not.

Paperback 1993

Free Trade between the United States and Canada

Ronald J. Wonnacott

Paul Wonnacott

Hardcover 1967

Free to Lose

John E. Roemer

John Roemer challenges the morality of an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production. Unless you start with a certain amount of wealth in such a society, you are only "free to lose." This book addresses crucial questions of political philosophy and normative economics in terms understandable by readers with a minimal knowledge of economics.

Hardcover 1988 / E-book 2009 / Paperback

The French Labor Movement

Val R. Lorwin

Hardcover 1954

From Sand to Circuits

Edited by John J. Simon, Jr

Hardcover 1987

Fueling Growth

Laura E. Hein

Hardcover 1990

The Functions of the Executive

Chester I. Barnard

Introduction by Kenneth Richmond Andrews

Most of Barnard's career was spent in executive practice. A Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the bachelor's degree, was followed by nearly forty years in the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. His career began in the Statistical Department, took him to technical expertness in the economics of rates and administrative experience in the management of commercial operations, and culminated in the presidency of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company. He was not directly involved in the Western Electric experiments conducted chiefly at the Hawthorne plant in Cicero, but his association with Elton Mayo and the latter's colleagues at the Harvard Business School had an important bearing on his most original ideas.

Paperback 1971

Fundamentals of Statistics

Truman Lee Kelley

Hardcover 1947

A Future for Socialism

John E. Roemer

Paperback / Hardcover

Game Theory

Roger B. Myerson

Eminently suited to classroom use as well as individual study, Roger Myerson's introductory text provides a clear and thorough examination of the models, solution concepts, results, and methodological principles of noncooperative and cooperative game theory. Myerson introduces, clarifies, and synthesizes the extraordinary advances made in the subject over the past fifteen years, presents an overview of decision theory, and comprehensively reviews the development of the fundamental models.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1997

General Equilibrium of International Discrimination

Jaroslav Vanek

Hardcover 1965

General Equilibrium, Overlapping Generations Models, and Optimal Growth Theory

Truman F. Bewley

This book presents an exposition of general equilibrium theory for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students of economics. It contains discussions of economic efficiency, competitive equilibrium, the welfare theorems, the Kuhn-Tucker approach to general equilibrium, the Arrow-Debreu model, and rational expectations equilibrium and the permanent income hypothesis. It presents a unified approach to portions of macro- as well as microeconomic theory and contains problems sets for most chapters.

Hardcover 2007 / E-book 2009

Government Policy and the Distribution of Income in Peru, 1963-1973

Richard C. Webb

Hardcover 1977

Growth and Structure in the Economy of Modern Italy

George Hildebrand

Hardcover 1965

Growth, Distribution and Prices

Stephen A. Marglin

Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

The Health Economy

Victor Fuchs

Paperback

High-Level Manpower in Economical Development

Richard D. Robinson

Hardcover 1967

Hiring of Dock Workers and Employment Practices in the Ports of New York, Liverpool, London, Rotterdam, and Marseilles

Vernon H. Jensen

Hardcover 1964

Hospital Costs and Health Insurance

Martin Feldstein

Hardcover 1981

Housing and Neighborhood Dynamics

William C. Apgar, Jr

John F. Kain

This book assesses the effects of spatially concentrated programs for housing and neighborhood improvement. These programs provide direct assistance to low–income property owners in an attempt to arrest neighborhood decline and encourage revitalization.

Hardcover 1985

How We Live

Victor Fuchs

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

In Praise of Commercial Culture

Tyler Cowen

Economist Tyler Cowen argues that the capitalist market economy is a vital but underappreciated institutional framework for supporting a variety of artistic visions. Cowen's philosophy of cultural optimism stands in opposition to the many varieties of cultural pessimism found among conservatives, neo-conservatives, the Frankfurt School, and some versions of the political correctness and multiculturalist movements.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000 / E-book 2009

Income, Saving, and the Theory of Consumer Behavior

James S. Duesenberry

Hardcover 1949

Income, Wealth, and the Maximum Principle

Martin L. Weitzman

This compact and original exposition of optimal control theory and applications is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. It presents a new elementary yet rigorous proof of the maximum principle and a new way of applying the principle that will enable students to solve any one-dimensional problem routinely. Its unified framework illuminates many famous economic examples and models and also emphasizes the connection between optimal control theory and the classical themes of capital theory. The book will be valuable to students who want to formulate and solve dynamic allocation problems. It will also be of interest to any economist who wants to understand results of the latest research on the relationship between comprehensive income accounting and wealth or welfare.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2007 / E-book 2009

Institutions and Economic Performance

Edited by Elhanan Helpman

Explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. This book is unique in its melding of economics, political science, history, and sociology to address its central question.

Hardcover 2008 / E-book 2009

Interbrand Choice, Strategy, and Bilateral Market Power

Michael E. Porter

Hardcover 1976

The International Economy and Monetary Movements in France, 1493-1725

Frank C. Spooner

Hardcover 1972

International High Technology Competition

F. Scherer

Hardcover

Interregional Competition in Agriculture

Ronald L. Mighell

John D. Black

Hardcover 1951

Introduction to Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory

George McCandless

Neil Wallace

Hardcover 1992

Investment Banking in America

Vincent Carosso

Hardcover 1970

Investment and Production

Vernon L. Smith

Hardcover 1961

Investment and the Return to Equity Capital in the South African Gold Mining Industry, 1887-1965

S. Herbert Frankel

Hardcover 1967

Is NAFTA Constitutional?

Bruce Ackerman

David Golove

By a vote of 61 to 38, the Senate joined the House in declaring that "Congress approves...the North American Free Trade Agreement." Whatever happened to the Treaty Clause? Bruce Ackerman and David Glove tell the story of the Treaty Clause's displacement in the twentieth century by a modern procedure in which the House joins the Senate in the process of consideration, but simple majorities in both Houses suffice to commit the nation. So, is NAFTA constitutional?

Paperback 1995

The Israeli Economy

Yoram Ben-Porath

Hardcover 1986

Italian Public Enterprise

M. V. Posner

S. J. Woolf

Hardcover 1967

The Japanese Automobile Industry

Michael Cusumano

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1989

John Ruskin, or the Ambiguities of Abundance

James Clark Sherburne

Until 1860 John Ruskin's writings were primarily about art and architecture; but his belief that good art can flourish only in a society that is sound and healthy led him inevitably to a preoccupation with social and economic problems, the dominant concern of his later writings. Sherburne provides in this volume a detailed and long overdue re-examination of Ruskin's social and economic perceptions and, for the first time, systematically places these perceptions in their nineteenth-century intellectual context.

Hardcover 1972

The Kaiping Mines, 1877-1912, 2nd ed

Ellsworth C. Carlson

Paperback 1971

Karl Marx's Interpretation of History

M. M. Bober

Hardcover 1948

The Kelley Statistical Tables, Rev. ed

Truman Lee Kelley

Hardcover 1948

Kikkoman

W. Mark Fruin

Hardcover 1983

Labor Economics and Industrial Relations

Clark Kerr

Paul D. Staudohar

In twenty-three original essays this book reviews the course of labor economics over the more than two centuries since the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. It fully examines the contending theories, changing environmental contexts, evolving issues, and varied policies affecting labor's participation in the economy.

Paperback 2003 / Hardcover

Labor Markets in Action

Richard B. Freeman

Hardcover 1990

Labor Politics American Style

Philip Taft

Hardcover 1968

Labor in Finland

Carl Erik Knoellinger

Hardcover 1960

Labor in the South

F. Ray Marshall

Hardcover 1967

The Land Question and the Irish Economy

Barbara Lewis Solow

Hardcover 1971

Late Ch'ing Finance

C. John Stanley

Paperback 1961

Latin America and the World Economy since 1800

Edited by John H. Coatsworth

Edited by Alan M. Taylor

The fifteen essays in this volume apply the methods of the new economic history to the history of the Latin American economies since 1800. The authors combine the historian's sensitivity to context and contingency with modern or "neoclassical" economic theory and quantitative methods.

Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

Law and Social Norms

Eric A. Posner

Eric Posner argues that social norms are sometimes desirable yet sometimes odious, and that the law is critical to enhancing good social norms and undermining bad ones. He goes on to argue that the proper regulation of social norms is a delicate and complex task, and that current understanding of social norms is inadequate for guiding judges and lawmakers. What is needed, and what this book offers, is a model of the relationship between law and social norms.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002 / E-book 2009

Leadership Without Easy Answers

Ronald Heifetz

Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers, and politicians in the public realm and the private sector, among the nonprofits, and in teaching, Heifetz presents clear, concrete prescriptions for anyone who needs to take the lead in almost any situation, under almost any organizational conditions, no matter who is in charge, His strategy applies not only to people at the top but also to those who must lead without authority--activists as well as presidents, managers as well as workers on the front line.

Hardcover 1998 / E-book 2009

Learning about Risk

W. Kip Viscusi

Wesley A. Magat

Hardcover 1987

Lectures on Economic Growth

Robert E. Lucas

In this book the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Lucas collects his writings on economic growth, from his seminal On the Mechanics of Economic Development to his previously unpublished 1997 Kuznets Lectures.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

The Logic of Collective Action

Mancur Olson

This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and illustrates the theory with empirical and historical studies of particular organizations. Applying economic analysis to the subjects of the political scientist, sociologist, and economist, Mr. Olson examines the extent to which the individuals that share a common interest find it in their individual interest to bear the costs of the organizational effort.

Paperback 1971 / E-book 2009

The Machinists

Mark Perlman

Hardcover 1961

Macroeconomic Policy

Robert Barro

Combining powerful insights from theory with close observation of data, Barro’s new book goes a long way toward the establishment of an empirically based macroeconomic theory.

Hardcover

Making Markets

Mitchel Abolafia

Making Markets, an ethnography of Wall Street culture, offers a comprehensive picture of how the market and its denizens work. Markets appear here as socially constructed institutions in which the behavior of traders is suspended in a web of customs, norms, and structures of control.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2001

Man-in-Organization

F. J. Roethlisberger

Hardcover 1968

Management and Morale

F. J. Roethlisberger

Hardcover 1941

Managerial Hierarchies

Edited by Alfred D. Chandler

Edited by Herman Daems

Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

Managing Industrial Enterprise

Edited by William D. Wray

Hardcover 1989

The Manpower Connection

Eli Ginzberg

Hardcover 1976

Market Control and Planning in Communist China

Dwight H. Perkins

Hardcover 1966

The Market Meets its Match

Alice Amsden

Jacek Kochanowicz

Lance Taylor

Under free-market shock therapy, many of the economies of the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe have declined. Why has there been so much stagnation, inflation, and de-industrialization, and what can be done to turn this risky state of affairs around? The first critique of the free-market economic policies that have shocked Eastern Europe, this book addresses these questions in revealing detail.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998

Market Signaling

A. Michael Spence

Hardcover 1974

Market Structure and Behavior

Martin Shubik

Hardcover 1980

Markets and Diversity

Sherwin Rosen

A staunch neoclassical economist, Rosen drew inspiration from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, particularly his theory of compensating wage differentials, which Rosen felt was central to all economic problems involving product differentiation and spatial considerations. The main theme of his collection is how markets handle diversity, including the determination of value in the presence of diversity, the allocation of idiosyncratic buyers to specialized sellers, and the effects of heterogeneity and sorting on inequality.

Hardcover 2004 / E-book 2009

The Matching Law

Richard J. Herrnstein

Edited by Howard Rachlin

Edited by David I. Laibson

This collection consists of Richard Herrnstein's most important and original contributions to the social and behavioral sciences--his papers on choice behavior in animals and humans and on his discovery and elucidation of a general principle of choice called the matching law.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000

The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise

Mira Wilkins

Hardcover 1974

Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France

Robert Darnton

Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contribution to the study of popular culture and the manner in which ideas are diffused down through various social levels.

Hardcover 1968 / E-book 2009 / Paperback

Methods of Crop Forecasting

Fred H. Sanderson

Hardcover 1954

Misunderstanding Media

Brian Winston

Hardcover 1986

Mitsubishi and the N.Y.K., 1870-1914

William D. Wray

Hardcover 1984

Mobilizing Invisible Assets

Hiroyuki Itami

Thomas Roehl

Paperback 1991 / E-book 2009

Modeling Japanese-American Trade

Peter A. Petri

Hardcover 1984

Models for Managing Regional Water Quality

Robert Dorfman

Henry D. Jacoby

Harold A. Thomas

Hardcover 1973

Modern Business Cycle Theory

Edited by Robert Barro

Hardcover

Modern Public Finance

Edited by John M. Quigley

Edited by Eugene Smolensky

In this book, senior scholars in the field review and synthesize recent theoretical developments in important areas--optimal taxation, public sector dynamics, distribution theory, and club theory, to name a few--which challenge us to understand and improve public policy.

Paperback 2000 / Hardcover

Monetarist Perspectives

David Laidler

Hardcover 1983

The Money Interest and the Public Interest

Perry Mehrling

Hardcover

Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1845-1895

Frank H. H. King

Hardcover 1965

Money, Trade, and Economic Growth

Harry G. Johnson

Paperback 1962 / Hardcover 1962

Moving the Masses

Charles W. Cheape

Hardcover 1980

The Mystery of Economic Growth

Elhanan Helpman

Far more than an intellectual puzzle for pundits, economists, and policymakers, economic growth--its makings and workings--is a subject that affects the well-being of billions of people around the globe. Helpman discusses the vast research that has revolutionized understanding of this subject in recent years, and summarizes and explains its critical messages in clear, concise, and accessible terms.

Hardcover 2004 / E-book 2009 / Paperback 2010

Natural Experiments of History

Edited by Jared Diamond

Edited by James A. Robinson

This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and political science. The studies cover a spectrum of approaches, ranging from a non-quantitative narrative style in the early chapters to quantitative statistical analyses in the later chapters. The societies discussed are contemporary ones, literate societies of recent centuries, and non-literate past societies. Geographically, they include the United States, Mexico, Brazil, western Europe, tropical Africa, India, Siberia, Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific islands.

Hardcover 2010

Negotiating the Law of the Sea

James K. Sebenius

The Law of the Sea (LOS) treaty resulted from some of the most complicated multilateral negotiations ever conducted. Difficult bargaining produced a remarkably sophisticated agreement on the financial aspects of deep ocean mining and on the financing of a new international mining entity. This book analyzes those negotiations along with the abrupt U.S. rejection of their results. Building from this episode, it derives important and subtle general rules and propositions for reaching superior, sustainable agreements in complex bargaining situations.

Hardcover 1984

The New Competition

Michael Best

Paperback / Hardcover

New Dimensions of Political Economy

Walter W. Heller

In his first book since leaving Washington to return to the University of Minnesota, he describes the emergence of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson as practicing economists, evaluates their economic policies, and sketches the patterns that are being established for the future. He tells how the grip of economic myths and false fears has been loosened in the government, with the result that economic policy is focused on sustaining prosperity without inflation, on speeding economic growth, and on realizing the fruits of true fiscal abundance.

Hardcover 1966

New England Textiles in the Nineteenth Century

Paul F. McGouldrick

Hardcover 1968

New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Matthew D. Adler

Eric A. Posner

In this book, the authors reconceptualize cost-benefit analysis, arguing that its objective should be overall well-being rather than economic efficiency. This book not only places cost-benefit analysis on a firmer theoretical foundation, but also has many practical implications for how government agencies should undertake cost-benefit studies.

Hardcover 2006

The New Sovereignty

Abram Chayes

Antonia Handler Chayes

In an increasingly interdependent world, states resort to an array of regulatory agreements to deal with problems as disparate as nuclear proliferation, international trade, species destruction, and intellectual property, while threatening military or economic sanctions in order to deter noncompliance. This book argues that this approach is misconceived, and proposes a new model of treaty compliance.

Paperback 1998 / E-book 2009 / Hardcover

The New York Money Market and the Finance of Trade, 1900-1913

C. A. E. Goodhart

Hardcover 1969

The Nonprofit Economy

Burton Weisbrod

Nonprofit organizations are all around us. Written in a clear, direct style without technicalities, The Nonprofit Economy is addressed to a broad audience, dealing comprehensively with what nonprofits do, how well they do it, how they are financed, and how they interact with private enterprises and government.

Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1991 / E-book 2009

One Hundred Thousand Tractors

Robert F. Miller

Hardcover 1970

Organization and Environment

Paul R. Lawrence

Jay W. Lorsch

Hardcover 1967

The Ownership of Enterprise

Henry Hansmann

The investor-owned corporation is the conventional form for structuring large-scale enterprise in market economies, but it is not the only one. In The Ownership of Enterprise, Henry Hansmann explains why different industries and different national economies exhibit different patterns of ownership forms.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 2000 / E-book 2009

Pakistan's Development

Gustav F. Papanek

Hardcover 1967

Political Competition

John E. Roemer

John Roemer presents a unified and rigorous theory of political competition between parties and he models the theory under many specifications, including whether parties are policy oriented or oriented toward winning, whether they are certain or uncertain about voter preferences, and whether the policy space is uni- or multidimensional.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2006 / E-book 2009

The Politics of Land Reform in Chile, 1950-1970

Robert R. Kaufman

Hardcover 1972

The Politics of Railroad Coordination, 1933-1936

Earl Latham

Hardcover 1959

Private Choices and Public Health

Tomas Philipson

Richard A. Posner

Hardcover

Private Truths, Public Lies

Timur Kuran

Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. He argues that the phenomenon not only is ubiquitous but has huge social and political consequences. Drawing on diverse intellectual traditions, including those rooted in economics, psychology, sociology, and political science, Kuran provides a unified theory of how preference falsification shapes collective decisions, orients structural change, sustains social stability, distorts human knowledge, and conceals political possibilities.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1998

Productivity and the Social System-The USSR and the West

Abram Bergson

Hardcover

Program Budgeting

Edited by David Novick

Hardcover 1967

Promotion and Control of Industry in Postwar France

John Sheahan

Hardcover 1963

A Propensity to Self-Subversion

Albert O. Hirschman

In these twenty essays Albert Hirschman casts his sharp analytical eye on his own ideas, questioning and qualifying some of his major propositions on social change and economic development. Hirschman's self-subversion, as well as the self-affirmation that is also present here, bring us fresh perspective on the material in his twelve previous books and countless essays.

Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998

Prophets of Regulation

Thomas K. McCraw

"There is properly no history, only biography," Emerson remarked, and in this ingenious book Thomas McGraw unfolds the history of four powerful men: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, and Alfred E. Kahn. The absorbing stories he tells make this a book that will appeal across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and to all readers interested in history, biography, and Americana.

Hardcover 1984 / Paperback 1986 / E-book 2009

Public Finance During the Korean Modernization Process

Roy Bahl

Chuk Kyo Kim

Chong Kee Park

Hardcover 1986

R&D, Education, and Productivity

Zvi Griliches

Zvi Griliches was a modern master of empirical economics. In this short book, he recounts what he and others have learned about the sources of economic growth. This book conveys the way he tackled research problems. For Griliches, economic theorizing without measurement is merely the fashioning of parables, but measurement without theory is blind. Judgment enables one to strike the right balance.

Hardcover 2001

Racial Conflict and Economic Development

W. Arthur Lewis

Hardcover 1985

Rationality and Freedom

Amartya Sen

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice, the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues. This volume--the first of the two--is principally concerned with rationality and freedom.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004

Reality and Rhetoric

P. T. Bauer

Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

Reconstructing Macroeconomics

Lance Taylor

This book presents both a critique of mainstream macroeconomics from a structuralist perspective and an exposition of modern structuralist approaches. The fundamental assumption of structuralism is that it is impossible to understand a macroeconomy without understanding its major institutions and distributive relationships across productive sectors and social groups.

Hardcover 2004 / E-book 2009

Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics

Nancy L. Stokey

Robert E. Lucas

Edward C. Prescott

This rigorous but brilliantly lucid book presents a self-contained treatment of modern economic dynamics. Stokey, Lucas, and Prescott develop the basic methods of recursive analysis and illustrate the many areas where they can usefully be applied.

Hardcover 1989

Reforming Products Liability

W. Kip Viscusi

Drawing on both liability insurance trends and litigation patterns, Viscusi shows that the products liability crisis is not simply a phenomenon of the 1980s but has been developing for several decades. He argues that the principal causes have been the expansion of the doctrine of design defect, the emergence of mass toxic torts, and the increase in lawsuits involving hazard warnings. This explanation differs sharply from that of most other scholars, who blame the doctrine of strict liability.

Hardcover 1991

Resources, Values, and Development

Amartya Sen

Paperback 1997

The Return to Keynes

Edited by Bradley Bateman

Edited by Toshiaki Hirai

Edited by Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

Keynesian economics, which proposed that the government could use monetary and fiscal policy to help the economy avoid the extremes of recession and inflation, held sway for thirty years after World War II. However, it was discredited after the stagflation of the 1970s, only to see a rebirth, most dramatically illustrated during the past year when central banks have pumped billions of dollars of liquidity into the world’s financial system to address the crises of confidence, illiquidity, and insolvency that were triggered by the sub-prime lending crisis. The Return to Keynes puts Keynesian economics in a fresh perspective in order to assess this surprising new era in economic policy making.

Hardcover 2010 / E-book 2010

Revolution at the Checkout Counter

Stephen A. Brown

Hardcover 1997

Rewarding Work

Edmund S. Phelps

Since the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and the pay of the middle class. No longer able to earn a decent wage in respectable work, many have left the labor force, and the job attachment of those remaining has weakened, also reducing employment. For Edmund Phelps, this is a failure of political economy whose ill effects have spread widely and are undermining the free-enterprise system itself. His solution is a graduated schedule of tax subsidies to enterprises for every low-wage worker they employ. As firms hire more of these workers, the labor market would tighten, driving up their pay levels as well as their employment.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999 / E-book 2009

Rewarding Work

Edmund S. Phelps

Since the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and that of the middle class, resulting in the departure or frustration of much of the labor force. For Phelps, this is a failure of political economy whose widespread effects are undermining the free-enterprise system. His solution is a graduated schedule of tax subsidies to enterprises for every low-wage worker they employ. As firms hire more of these workers, the labor market would tighten, driving up their pay levels as well as their employment.

Paperback 2007

The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494

Raymond de Roover

Hardcover 1963

The Rise of the National Trade Union

Lloyd Ulman

Hardcover 1955

The Rise of the United Association

Martin Segal

Hardcover 1969

Risk by Choice

W. Kip Viscusi

Hardcover 1983

Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essays

Albert O. Hirschman

Paperback

Rural Development

Sung Hwan Ban

Pal Yong Moon

Dwight H. Perkins

Hardcover

Rural Industrialization in China

John Sigurdson

Hardcover 1977

Saving in Postwar Japan

Tuvia Blumenthal

Paperback

Scarcity by Design

Peter Salins

Gerard Mildner

Hardcover

Science Policy and Business

Edited by David W. Ewing

Hardcover 1973

Secrecy and the Arms Race

Martin C. McGuire

Hardcover 1965

Selected Contributions of Ukrainian Scholars to Economics

Edited by I. S. Koropeckyj

Hardcover 1985

Selling Hope

Charles Clotfelter

Philip Cook

With its huge jackpots and heartwarming rags-to-riches stories, the lottery has become the hope and dream of millions of Americans--and the fastest-growing source of state revenue. Despite its popularity, however, there remains much controversy over whether this is an appropriate business for state government and, if so, how the business should be conducted.

Paperback 1991

The Service Sector in Soviet Economic Growth

Gur Ofer

Hardcover 1973

The Share Economy

Martin L. Weitzman

Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

The Sicilian Mafia

Diego Gambetta

In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for parties to commercial transactions. Drawing on the confessions of eight Mafiosi, Diego Gambetta develops an elegant analysis of the economic and political role of the Sicilian Mafia.

Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

The Smoking Puzzle

Frank A. Sloan

V. Kerry Smith

Donald H. Taylor

How do smokers evaluate evidence that smoking harms health? Some evidence suggests that smokers overestimate health risks from smoking. This book challenges this conclusion. The authors find that smokers tend to be overly optimistic about their longevity and future health if they quit later in life. Smokers over fifty revise their risk perceptions only after experiencing a major health shock. If smokers are informed of long-term consequences of a disease, and if they are told that quitting can indeed come too late, they are able to evaluate the risks of smoking more accurately, and act accordingly.

Hardcover 2003

Social Economics

Gary S. Becker

Kevin M. Murphy

Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy provide a testable, analytic framework for measuring how people make choices by including the social environment along with standard goods and services in their utility functions. These extended utility functions provide a way of analyzing how changes in the social environment affect people's choices and behaviors. More important, they also provide a way of analyzing how the social environment itself is determined by the interactions of individuals.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003 / E-book 2009

Some Problems in Market Distribution

Arch W. Shaw

Hardcover 1915

The Sources of Economic Growth

Richard R. Nelson

Technological advance is the key driving force behind economic growth, argues Richard Nelson. Drawing on a deep knowledge of economic and technological history as well as the tools of economic analysis, he exposes the intimate connections among government policies, science-based universities, and the growth of technology.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 2000

Specification, Estimation, and Analysis of Macroeconomic Models

Ray Fair

Hardcover 1984

The Spirit of Capitalism

Liah Greenfeld

The Spirit of Capitalism answers a fundamental question of economics: what are the reasons (rather than just the conditions) for sustained economic growth? Liah Greenfeld focuses on the problem of motivation behind the epochal change in behavior, which from the sixteenth century on has reoriented one economy after another from subsistence to profit, transforming the nature of economic activity. A detailed analysis of the development of economic consciousness in England, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, and the United States allows her to argue that the motivation behind the modern, growth-oriented economy was nationalism.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003 / E-book 2009

The Steel Industry Wage Structure

Jack Stieber

Hardcover 1959

The Steel Industry of India

William A. Johnson

Hardcover 1966

Storm over the Multinationals

Raymond Vernon

Hardcover 1977

The Story of the Savannah

David Kuechle

Hardcover 1971

Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays

Thomas C. Schelling

All of the essays in this new collection by Thomas Schelling convey his unique perspective on individuals and society. Schelling, a 2005 Nobel Prize winner, has been one of the four or five most important social scientists of the past fifty years, and this collection shows why.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007

Structural Change in the American Economy

Anne P. Carter

Hardcover 1970

Structural Holes

Ronald Burt

Ronald Burt describes the social structural theory of competition that has developed through the last two decades. The contrast between perfect competition and monopoly is replaced with a network model of competition. The basic element in this account is the structural hole: a gap between two individuals with complementary resources or information.

Paperback 1995 / E-book 2009 / Hardcover

Structural Slumps

Edmund S. Phelps

Dissatisfied with the explanations of the business cycle provided by the Keynesian, monetarist, New Keynesian, and real business cycle schools, Edmund Phelps has developed from various existing strands--some modern and some classical--a radically different theory to account for the long periods of unemployment that have dogged the economies of the United States and Western Europe since the early 1970s.

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

The Structure of Soviet Wages

Abram Bergson

Hardcover

Studies in Development Planning

Edited by Hollis B. Chenery

Samuel Bowles, With

Walter P. Falcon, With

Carl Gotsch, With

David Kendrick, With

Arthur MacEwan, With

Christopher Sims, With

Thomas Weisskopf, With

Hardcover 1971

Supply-Side Revolution

Paul Craig Roberts

Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

Surviving Large Losses

Philip T. Hoffman

Gilles Postel-Vinay

Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

When financial institutions collapse, new ones take their place, shaping markets for generations to come. This book explains why financial crises occur, why their effects last so long, and what political and economic conditions can help countries both rich and poor survive, and even prosper, in the aftermath. Although there is no panacea for such crises, the authors argue that it is possible to strengthen existing financial institutions, encourage economic growth, and limit the harm that future catastrophes can do.

Hardcover 2007 / E-book 2009 / Paperback 2009

Taking Your Medicine

Peter Temin

Hardcover 1980

Tax Expenditures

Stanley S. Surrey

Paul R. McDaniel

Hardcover 1985

The Taxation of Capital Income

Alan J. Auberbach

This important contribution to tax analysis presents seven related theoretical essays that examine the effects of capital income taxation on the behavior of firms. It is divided into three sections, focusing on optimal tax design, firm financial policy, and inflation. Taken together, the essays demonstrate the powerful role taxes play in shaping the behavior of American corporations, and also provide insights into the difficult task of tax reform.

Hardcover

Taxing Agricultural Land in Developing Countries

Richard M. Bird

Hardcover

Technological Change and Management

Edited by David W. Ewing

Hardcover 1970

Technology and Investment

Barbara Molony

This study analyzes the nature of prewar Japanese entrepreneurship, the links between technology and investment, the emergence of a class of scientific managers, and the relationship of business strategy to imperialism in the years leading up to World War II.

Hardcover 1990

Technology, Institutions, and Economic Growth

Richard R. Nelson

This volume mounts a full-blown attack on the standard neo-classical theory of economic growth, which Richard Nelson sees as hopelessly inadequate to explain the phenomenon of economic growth. He presents an alternative theory which highlights that economic growth driven by technological advance involves disequilibrium in a fundamental and continuing way. The broad theory of economic growth Nelson presents sees the process as involving the co-evolution of technologies, institutions, and industry structure.

Hardcover 2005

Telecommunication Policy for the Information Age

Gerald W. Brock

Gerald Brock develops a new theory of decentralized public decisionmaking and uses it to clarify the dramatic changes that have transformed the telecommunication industry from a heavily regulated monopoly to a set of market-oriented firms.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1998

Testing Macroeconometric Models

Ray Fair

This book gives a practical, applications-oriented account of the latest techniques for estimating and analyzing large, nonlinear macroeconometric models. Anyone wanting to learn how to use these models, including researchers, graduate students, economic forecasters, and people in business and government both in the United States and abroad, will find this an essential guidebook.

Hardcover 1998

Theories of Distributive Justice

John E. Roemer

John Roemer has written a unique book that critiques economists' conceptions of justice from a philosophical perspective and philosophical theories of distributive justice from an economic one.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

The Theory of Economic Development

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Translated by Redvers Opie

Hardcover

Theory of Markets

Tun Thin

Hardcover 1960

A Theory of Price Control

John Kenneth Galbraith

Everybody talks about price control, but not many of us know what to expect of it, and when and how it should be used. In nontechnical language, Galbraith supplies the underlying economic ideas which will help readers understand how particular controls affect the general operation of the economy. He shows why price controls during World War II worked as well as they did and he analyzes the criteria for effective price control both under a fully mobilized economy and under limited mobilization.

Hardcover 1980

The Theory of Trade and Protection

William Penfield Travis

Hardcover 1964

Time in India's Development Programmes

Robert Repetto

Hardcover 1971

Toward Industrial Democracy

Kunio Odaka

Hardcover 1975

Toward a New Iron Age?

Robert B. Gordon

Tjalling C. Koopmans

William D. Nordhaus

Brian J. Skinner

Hardcover 1987

Trade Union Officers

H. A. Clegg

A. J. Killick

Rex Adams

Trade Union officers are said to be badly paid and over–worked while much of the power of the unions is alleged to have passed to the shop stewards, about whose duties and characteristics relatively little is known. This study is based upon an investigation into the records of eighteen major unions, upon local surveys, and upon the answers to questionnaires distributed nationally.

Hardcover 1961

Trade and Economic Structure

Richard E. Caves

Hardcover 1960

Trading Up

David Vogel

In Trading Up, David Vogel challenges the conventional wisdom that trade liberalization and agreements to promote free trade invariably undermine national health, safety, and environmental standards. He analyzes the regulatory dimensions of all major international and regional trade agreements and treaties, and unravels the increasingly important and contentious relationship between trade and environmental, health, and safety standards.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1998 / E-book 2009

A Treatise on the Family

Gary S. Becker

Imagine each family as a kind of little factory--a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary Becker in his landmark work on the family.Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decisions, such as choosing a spouse or having children. He uses the basic economic assumptions of maximizing behavior, stable preferences, arid equilibria in explicit or implicit markets to analyze the allocation of time to child care as well as to careers, to marriage and divorce in polygynous as well as monogamous societies, to the increase and decrease of wealth from one generation to another.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1993 / E-book 2009

Ukrainian Economic History

Edited by I. S. Koropeckyj

This volume contains the papers presented at the Third Quinquennial Conference on Ukrainian Economics. It contains fourteen previously unpublished essays dealing with the one thousand years of Ukrainian economic history prior to the outbreak of the First World War. The contributions are divided chronologically into three parts, covering the periods of Kievan Rus', the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the nineteenth century.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

The Ukrainian Economy

I. S. Koropeckyj

The present collection deals with the Ukrainian economy during the late twentieth century--a period of epochal change. The papers are divided into five sections: Framework; Resources; Performance; Welfare; and External Relations. Because of the wide range of topics and extensive source material, this collection will be useful not only to specialists, but also to students and others interested in Ukraine today.

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback

Understanding Capital

Duncan K. Foley

Understanding Capital is a brilliantly lucid introduction to Marxist economic theory. Duncan Foley builds an understanding of the theory systematically, from first principles through the definition of central concepts to the development of important applications.

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1986 / E-book 2009

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters

Walter Galenson

Hardcover 1983

United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corporation

Carl Kaysen

Hardcover 1956

The Urban Transportation Problem

John R. Meyer

Paperback 1965

Valuing Children

Nancy Folbre

While parents spend significant time as well as money on children, most estimates of the "cost" of children ignore the value of this time. Folbre provides a startlingly high but entirely credible estimate of the value of parental time per child by asking what it would cost to purchase a comparable substitute for it.

Hardcover 2008 / E-book 2009 / Paperback 2010

Vertical Integration and Joint Ventures in the Aluminum Industry

John A. Stuckey

Hardcover 1983

Video Economics

Bruce Owen

Steven Wildman

Video Economics is a rigorous yet accessible analysis of the economics and business strategies of the television industry. Owen and Wildman identify the complex chain of program producers, distributors, and retailers whose objectives are to obtain viewers in order to sell them to advertisers, to charge them an admission fee, or both. They address the major issues affecting competitive advantage in the industry as well as such concepts as public good, economics of scale, and price discrimination. With each topic they present the economic tools required to analyze the industry.

Hardcover 1992

The Village Entrepreneur

Wayne G. Broehl, Jr

Hardcover 1978

The Visible Hand

Alfred D. Chandler

The role of large-scale business enterprise--big business and its managers--during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.

Hardcover 1977 / Paperback 1993

The Voice of the Poor

John Kenneth Galbraith

What is surprising about these essays is not the insight and grace with which they are written--we have come to expect that--but the fact that nobody has expressed matters in quite this way before. John Kenneth Galbraith writes about what advice the poor nations (as, avoiding euphemism, he calls them) ought to offer to the more fortunate countries...In this little book there are essential lessons to ponder--for the governments of the rich countries, for those of the poor lands, and for the concerned citizens of both.

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

Wages and Economic Control in Norway, 1945-1957

Mark W. Leiserson

Hardcover 1959

Water-Resource Development

Otto Eckstein

Hardcover 1958

Western Enterprise in Late Ch'ing China

Edward Le Fevour

Hardcover 1968

What Price Fame?

Tyler Cowen

The separation of fame and merit is one of the central dilemmas Cowen considers in What Price Fame?, an intriguing exploration of the economics of fame. He shows how fame is produced, outlines the principles that govern who becomes famous and why, and discusses whether fame-seeking behavior harmonizes individual and social interests or corrupts social discourse and degrades culture.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Women's Quest For Economic Equality

Victor Fuchs

Paperback 1990

Worlds of Production

Michael Storper

Robert Salais

Hardcover 1997

Worst-Case Scenarios

Cass R. Sunstein

Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. Sunstein explores these and other worst-case scenarios and how we might best prevent them in this vivid, illuminating, and highly original analysis.

Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2009